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Good question and yes it does matter, this is referred to as Keyword proximity. Keyword proximity measures the closeness between two keywords. In general, the closer the keywords are, the better.

For Search Engine Optimisation,the proximity of the keywords or keywords included in a phrase in relation to each other is very important. The appropriate combination of the words in the page titles,meta descriptions, headers, paragraphs and page content will either help or hinder your rankings.